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A large supply of school books just
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THE FOLLOWING IS

m III o City Of New York on the delivery of this Policy AMI t''rent
V administrators or assigns first dodu'nS 'n''''"
.. continuance Of this Policy upon the following coalitions
II y statement made in application be respect untrue or
49,, 7,,: .,p he void and all payments upon aln
M ,on the surrender of this Policy within six months after such lapse
H. Proof Of death shall be furnished to the Company within two years
o., q is pt,act can he changed waived except by
\~~l . ,..ooof the MANHATTAN LIFEIN5URANCE
II. Y. WEMPLE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
Rhythm in Commercial Affairs.

As prices fall and profits shrink,
producers working on insufficient cap
ital, or by imperfect methods, are soon
obliged, in order to meet impending
obligations, to force sales through a
further reduction of prices; and then
stronger competitors, in order to retain
their markets and customers, are COM
PEELED to follow their example; and
this in turn is followed by new conces-
sions alternately by both parties, until
gradually the industrial system be-
comes depressed and d~emoralized, and
the weaker succumb Qail), with a
greater Dr. less destruction Of capital
and waste of product. Affairs now
having reached their minimum of de-
preston, recovery slowly commences,
Consumption is never arrested, even
If production is, for the world must
continue to consume in order that life
and civilization may exist. The con-
tinued increase of population also in
creases the aggregate of consumption;
and, finally, the industrial and COM
mercial world again suddenly realizes
that the condition of affairs mas been
reversed, and that now the supply has
become unequal to the demand. Then
such producers as have ''stoeks on
hand, or the machinery of production
ready for immediate and effective
service; realize large profits; and the
realization of this fact Immediately
tempts others to rush into production,
In many cases with insufficient capital
(raised often through stock COM
panies), and without that practical
knowledge of The detail of their under
taking which Is necessary to insure
success, and the old experience of in
fiation and reaction is again and again
repeated. Hence. the explanation of
the now much-talked-of '.periods" or
~'eycles" of panic and speculation, of
trade activity and stagnation, Their
periodical occurrence has long been
recognized, and the economic princi-
pies involved in them have long been
understood. But a century ago or
more, when such a state of affairs oc-
CURED in any country, it was mainly
confined to such country, as wal nota-
bly, the case in John Laws mississippi
Scheme" or the English "South-Sea
Bubble" in the last century, or the
severe industrial and financial crises
which occurred in Great Britain in the
earlier years of the present century
and people of other countries, hearing
of it after considerable intervals, and
then vaguely through mercantile cor.
respondence, We're little troubled OF
interested. During recent years, how.
ever, they have become less local and
more universal, because the railroad,
the steamship, and the telegraph have
broken down the barriers between ma
tons, and, by spreading in a briei
time the same hopes and fears over the
whole civilized world, have made il
impossible any longer TO confine the
speculative spirit to any one country
Hon. David a. Wells tn Popular
Science.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
History of the Dollar.

Our word dollar dates back to 1885,
when a resolution was passed by Con-
gress which provided that il should be
the unit of money for the United States.
Another resolution was passed in 1875,
August 5, providing that it should
weigh 1851 grains of pure silver.
The mint was established in 1892, and
was then required to coin silver dollars
containing 371.25 grains of pure silver.
This was due to the influence of Alex
ander Hamilton. No dollars were
coined until 1894, and hen irregular.
In 1704 the coinage of regular dollars
began. Our coin was an adaptation
of the Spanish milled dollar, a. coin
very popular wherever the Spaniards
Travelled. The coin was called
'.paistre," meaning a fat piece of
metal; tits synonymous with plaster.
It is supposed that the Spaniards took
the german ..thaler" and called il
by the name of ..piaster."
The word dollar is entered in
Bailey's English Dictionary of 1745, and
was used repeatedly by Shakespeare at
the beginning of the seventeenth GEN.
tury, especially in Macbeth, " H., 2, e.;
It'll she disbursed $40, 600 to
general use." (See also the Tempest"
IL, 1, I'D. The question where Shaks-
peare found the word dollar is
answered by the fact that the Hanseatio
towns maintained a great establish
ment called the Steel Yard in London.
The Steel Yard merchants were mostly
North Germans, who would call the
German thaler as it was spelt, s.dah-
Ter" The same merchants occasloned
the word sterling, an Authorization OF
the word 'testeriing.n As the Han
seattle trade was particularly brisk on
the Baltic, and in Russia the standard
coins the Hanse merchants we're called
esterlings, sterling came to mean some
thing genuine and desirable. The word
dollar Is the English for thaIer, the
first of which was coined about 1896,
and corresponds quite closely to our
present American silver dollar. The
word thaler means looming from q
dale or valley the first dollars having
been coined In a Bohemian valley
called Foachimsthal. 1t was under
Charles ", the Emperor Of Germany,
King of Spain aud Lord of Spanish
America that the German thaler be-
came the coin Of the world.-1Ae
Eindnciey.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
The Mosque OF Omar.

The mosque of Omar is beautiful; its
walls are adorned with marble and
delicate colors, and the dome is rooted
with tiles and brilliant blue, snd some
green and yellow. The effect from
the mount of Olives Is of \ turquoise
dome roofing walls of pearl. Ii stands
high; white pavements aud tall
expresses around; steps lead down TO
other courts, once the Court OF the
Gentiles, the court of the Great Brazen
Laver, etc. and olives, and grass OF
emerald green, and abundant Wild
flowers cover the nakedness where
Solomon's offerings had enriched the
entrance grounds between the Golden
gate and the eastern walls OF the tenn
pie itself
Inside the mosque is exquisite. A
circle of marble pillars inclOsj the YER
liable rough rock top of Mount Moriah,
and support the inner part of the dome
which is rich in mosaic, worthy TO be
compared with that in Santa Maria
Maggiore in Rome. Portals and par
titions inlaid with tortoise shell, moth
er-of-pearl, and ivory, divided the lit
tie side chapels from the central pas
sageway between them and the sacred
rock, the scene of AbTaham's awful
obedience, and of the sacrifices which
interpreted to men, and made them
partakers of, one great sacrifice of the
son of God. We saw the opening cut
in the rock for the escape of the sac
rificed blood, and, descending into the
excavation below, we found a similar
opening communicating with a due
which discharged into a cesspool by
the Brook Kedron. We crossed the
outer southern court, and passing the
fountain supplied by the same water
as its grander predecessor on the backs
of braZen oxen, we descended beneath
the present mosque, FL Aksar, close TO
the mosque of Omar, into the very
same gallery which led to the old tenn
pie from the south, and up which u
Lord walked again and again when be
was here. 1t is now half-flled with
rubbish and earth, but the ceiling is
still so high above hat we needed to
be reminded that the ground level is
far down under the rubble. The pill
lars in single, solid blocks, the round
keystone in the roof, and the lintels of
the glory which has departed. Leav-
ing this gallery We climbed the city
wall, by the Golden gate, and walking
south to the angle of the walls We de-
scended under ground into the stables
CT Solomon. That they may have been
utilized by him, and certainly were by
the crusaders. the halter-rings declare,
but it seems that the original intention
was to raise the level Of the valley, and
the thick forest of pillars are chiefly
for support.-Sophia NJ. Palmer in The
OuiueT,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
The Trainers of the Constitution.

Pref. McMaster, the. historian, re-
Gently prepared a timely article for the
Century On the ''Framers and the
Framing of the Constitution" from
which the following is quoted. 1.-THE
delegates thus bound to secrecy were
assuredly a most remarkable body OF
men. Hardly one among them but
had sat in some famous assembly, had
signed some famous document, had
filed some high place, or had made
himself conspicuous for learning, for
scholarship. or for signal service rem
dered in the cause of liberty. One
had framed the Albany plan Of union;
some had been members of the Stamp
Act Congress of 1765: some had signed
the Declaration of Rights in 1874; the
James OF others appear at the Foot of
the Declaration of Independence, and
at the foot of the Articles of Confeder-
alton; two had been presidents of Con-
gress; had been, or were then,
governors OF States; twenty-eight had
been members of Congress; one had
commanded the armies of the United
States; another had been Superinten-
dent of Finance; a third had repeated
ly been sent on important missions to
England and had long been minister
20 France
Nor were the future careers OF
many of them to be less interesting
than their past. Washington and
Madison became Presidents of the
United States; Elbridge Gerry became
Vice-President; Charles Cotesworth
Plnckney and Rufus King became
candidates for the presidency, and
Jared Ingersoll, Rufus King, and John
Langdon candidates for the v~ice-presi-
dency; Hamilton became Secretary of
the Treasury; Madison. Secretary of
State; Randolph, Attorney-General and
Secretary of State, and James Nc
Henry, a Secretary of War; Ellsworth
and Rutledge became Cnief-Justices;
Wilson and John Blair rose to the SUI
preme bench; GouYerneur Morris, and
Ellsworth, and Charles G. Pinekney,
and Gerry. and William Dayie became
ministers abroad. Others less FORUM
ate closed their careers in misery or
in shame. Hamilton went down be-
fore the pistol of Aaron Burr; Robert
Morris, after languishing in a debtor's
prison, died in poverty; James Wilson
died a broken-hearted fugitive from
justice; Edmund Randolph left the
cabinet of Washington in disgraca
William BIount was driven from tie
Senate OF the United States
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06

A San Salvador correspondent 81
the San Francisco Alta ~Cs1sfarats
writes: IoaT Central American car
respondent was Recently At lzaleo, the
most active and most attractive of the
volcanoes of Central America. Ii
never harms anybody, There IS &
church at It's base, its buttressed walls
quite eighteen feet thick, 1t has stood
the BOOKINGS ami racket of daily
quakeS through $50 years, Three
great bella. each Weighing LOCO
pounds. and constituted quite one-han
Of silver. are suspended ia the church
yard. They are nfFen tollsd by icalca
when the jolly mountain is In 3 rosIeS-
ing good humor, or perhaps when it
is 'eolicky." Its explosions occur At
intervals Of from three 10 tive aud
fifteen minutes Now ana then the
great vent for explosive forces within
are Theoretically sealed for five. or six
hours, and even longer. Then the
country has a-ue fits and San Saliva
dor Is shaky. and the prescribed path
of earthquakes, which IS about twenty
five miles wide, is ratified" This,
too. is the width Of the coalheds along
this route of earthquakes Beneath
the coal is the river of oil that is on
fire ut I~zaleo. There coal, oil. and "a
stream of water meet Each explosion
of the mountain emits two columns,
one of black smoke from the burning
oil, the other Of white steam from RE
Caltente, which rams cut from beneath
the mountain and crosses the railway
five miles from the volcano. The
water is so hot that it peeled the hair
off my mules leg that crossed it o few
days ago. When al explosion occurs
in I~zalco, not only do these two coll
umns of steam and of smoke rise up
among the clouds. but great stones
and ashes and scoria and vast VOL
umns Of lava are emitted The greater
portion of all this measureless volume
of earthly mineral substances falls
back into the crater, closing it and
resting on it as 4 mighty valve. Great
masses of earth and stone fall in from
the interior of the mountain side, and
then the valve is heavier and deeper
and broader than usual, and then the
oil must burn longer. and greater and
more resistless volumes of gas must
be produced. The flames rage, the
waters boil, gas and steam and smoke
explode at last, and the country along
the earthquakes or coal measures
route is rudely shaken, and the thun-
ders of the universe are heard roaring
through the vast distances in measure
less caverns beneath Izalco.
Nobody should be afraid of earth
Guakes. They are simply products of
forces of coal-oil gas and water. All
that astonishing yarn about mother
earth cooling off and contracting her
belt is very fine and grand and impos-
ing. as a theory, but it won't hold
water; certainly not that of Rio
Caliente, which took the hair, last
Saturday, off my gray mules shins.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
How Booth Died.

As Herold left, Booth made a move
nient as though to raise his carbine,
and Boston Corbett fired. The ball
struck Booth just behind his ear, in
about the same place where be struck
the president. The bullet lodged in
the vertebrae of his neck, and this
part OF his anatomy was afterward cut
oHt, and the bone with the ball in it
was kept in the medical museum at
Washington. just before Corbett fred
the straw at the back Of the barn was
fired by a detective, and as the blaze
leaped upward | rushed in and seized
Booth, throwing my arms around his
waist under his uplifted arms, and
dragging him out Of the burning barn.
We carried him to the porch OF the
Carrot farmhouse, aud he died within
q few hours.-LsDDtncosfs Magozine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
An Ancient Spinning-School.

THE manner and Profits of a Spin
ning-School in Germany, as it is laid
down by Andrew Yarenton in his own
words, in a book of his calTd Eng
lands Improvements by Sea and Land
take as followeth: In Germany, where
the Thred is made hat makes the fine
Linnens, in all Towns there are
Schools for little Girls, from six years
old and upwards, to teach them to
spin, and so bring their tender fingers
by degrees to spin very fine; their
Wheels go all by the Foot, made to go
with much ease, whereby the action or
motion is very easie and delightful.
The way, method, rule, and order,
how they are governed is: 1st. There
is a large Room, and in the middle
thereof a little Box like a Pulpit:
2ndly. There are Benches built
around about the Room, as they r in
Play-houses; upon the benches sit about
two hundred Children spinning, and
in the box in the middle of the Room,
sits the grand-Mistress with Il long
white Wand in her hand; if she observe
any of them idle, she reaches them a
tap, but if they will not do, she rings
q UGLY "bAIh w q iibhIO SOAA - AASu
to the box, and out ONE a Woman,
she then points 10 the Offender, and
she is taken away into another Room
and classified; and all this is done
without one word speaking. In a
little Room by the School there is a
Woman that is preparing and putting
Flax on the Distaffs, and, upon the
ringing of a Bell, and pointing the
Rod at the Maid hat hath spun off her
flax, she hath another Distaff given her
and her Spool of Tired taken from
her, and put into a box unto others OF
the same size, to make Cloth, all being
of equal Threds. LIST. They raise their
Children as they spin finer, to the
higher Benches. 2. They sort and
size all the Threds, so that they can
apply them to make equal Cloths; and
after a young Maid hath been three
years in the Spinning-School, that is
taken in at six, and then continue:
until nine years, she will get eight
pence the day, and in these parts
speak of, a man that has most Children
lives best. George p. Norris, in Popu
| T0r CoSoaoo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
Yon a Have II.

my deer, what would / give to
have your hair?" is often said by
middle-aged ladies to young ones.
Madam, you may have just such hair.
Parker's Hair Balsem will give it to
you. 1t will stop your hairfrom fall
ing off, restore the original color and
make it long, thick. soft and glossy
You need not stand belplessjy envy
ing the girls. The Bal-am is not oily.
not a dye, but is an elegant dressing,
and is especially recommended for its
cleanliness and purity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
Land For Sale or Trade.

ENDIooTT,s w. T., Sept. Isl
have two so acre farms, 5 and s
miles northwest Of Farber and s
miles northeast of LaddoDia to sell
on long time, without any money
down. if | can get personal security
or first payment; or viii trade foI
blooded cattle and a good full.
blooded draft stallion Of good size,
The land is all prairie il good cul.
tiyation. I am bound to sell. Car
be seen or addressed at Laddonia
Mo, from Sept. 25th to Oct. 25;h
1887. w24-1m LILLIs F. SMITH.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
MONEY! MONEY!
$500. $500, $1,000, $4,000
SIS, 600,

Good farm loans can now be placed
for three " five years tune at fair
rates in Audrain, Boone, Galloway,
Randolph, Monroe, Rails and Pike
counties. Apply to
J. p. CLARK, Mexico, Mo-,
Agent for eastern capital and old
est real estate and lean agent in Cen
trail Missouri. 45-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06

Farmers. write 10 Ferris & Son,
Mexico, for prices OF Farm Imple.
ments- They can say you big mon.
ey, as they are headquarters for all
kinds Of farm implements, wagons,
bnggies, seif-hinders, cuitlvators,
barbed wire, washing machines, and
everything in the hardware line. Re-
pairs for Champion ard Osborne
machines. 3-Iyr.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
Typhoid, Scarlet and Yellow Feyers,
Measles, Diphiheria, Smallpox,
Cha!pra. ne.

Darbys Prophylactic Fluid will de.
stroy the infection of all fevers ard
all contagious and infectious Diseases
VIII keep the atmosphere of any sick.
room pure and wholesome, absorbing
and destroying unhealthy efiuvia
and contsgion resulting therefrem.
Will neutralize any bad smell what
ever, not by Disgusting it, but by de.
stroying It.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06

TO n FARMERS.

We wish to insure your property
sga.nst ire and lightning in AS good
companies as are in the world, at the
following rates;
Fifty cents per 500 for N year.
sl-0o per 500 for three years.
Si50 per 500 for five years
Don't pay p to 80 per cent higher
Than ADORE rates anti give your n"tt
for the premium, which soon falls into
hands of attorneys and banks foi
collection, kILGoRg & Howell,
Insurance Agents, Mexico. Mo,
Over Savings Bank, 33tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
Don't Give Up Yet.

L: doesn't follow that a patient
will die because the doctors have
given him up" or that he will recover
because they promis to pull him
through" It is never to late 10 try
the great virtues of Parker's Tonic,
Mr. Michael Guilfoyle, of Bingham
ton, n. Y, was cured of Rheumatism
by it after ten years of unspeakable
suffering. Mr.. R. w. Mosher, drug
gist, of some city. certifies that he
has sold over a Thousand bottles OF
Parker's Tonic through its reputation
for this and other cures.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
CHEAP MONEY,

We have aalimted sums Of HAS
tern money to loan at q low rate Of
interest ON Improved lands for q
terra of Eve years with privilege oil
paying s1o0 or any multiple thereof
al any interest pay day, Interest
payable annually OF sesai>annaslly 10
suit borrower. We can also supply
you with home money at all times,
kILaogK 4 HowEI1,
Loan and Real Estate Agents,
over Saving Bank. Mexico. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
For Male.

| have st my place SIX niles south
west OF Mexico a fine Tot of thor.
oughbred Poland China pigs, wh.eh
will sell at Triees 10 snit the tim
Call and see them or address me at
Mexico. D.. N. ROBERTS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
S.rayed.

From the pasture Of John Dingle,
living two miles and half northeast
Of Mexico. on the Florida road, a
small hay mare 10 e old, marked
as folloss: white nose, one hind foot
white, long heavy mans and forstop,
PAGES under the ssddle. "a 81
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
The Windsor Folding Bed.
saE

The ladies' of Audrain and sur.
rounding counties are cordially in,
vited to call and inspect this justly
celebrated UPRIGHT folding bed, which
has no equsl for easy working and
elegance, at exceedingly low prices
The Windsor is the best folding bee
made j. III. MEAEFEE,
Mexico, Mo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
yau Can Have 1t.

s.My dear, what would l give to
have your hair:' is often said by
middIe-aged ladies TO young ones.
Madam, you may have just such hair.
Parker's Hair Balsam will give it to
you. It will stop your hair from
falling off, restore the original color
and make it long, thick, soft and
glossy. You need not stand help
lessiy envying the girls. The Bal
sam is not oily, not a dye, but is an
elegant dressing, and is especially
recommended for its cleanliness and
purity. l9-5t
Ladies', buy the Eagle Steam
Washer; it is the best, cheapest
lightest and most durable and per
feet washing machine ever made
No iron to brake, no wood to leak
We don't make agents pay for terri
tory, but give them all the territor,
they want and sell them washers low
er than they can buy many worthless
washers at. Beware of peddlers sell
ing inferior washers and representing
them as improvements over the Eagle
Retail price $500. Write TO G l.
Ferris for an agency.
Champion and Osborne Machines
Extras and repairs always on hand.
3-1yr.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06

Plenty of Green tomatoes and
fresh cncumbers for pickles at my
Office. l.. d. SHrrpTE. 39-st
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06

SsGN6m5S5111|
FIRST

TwENTY-FIRsr School Year begins Tussa..
September 9Th New Students shoaIla =
present or Thursday preceding. Faouit, cos
sists of eleven members-specialists h a.
respective departments.
Total enrolment Of students last yeu. n.
representing 40 counties in Missouri and 7 s4.s..
Sixty graduates last years. In advanced ara
IS in elementary course.
State Certificates issued to those usA
pared 10 teach. Fifty Recitations per day.
Students can enter at any time and always fps
classes to suit them. Come at beginning Of term
il possible.
Graduates Of High Schools, Aoado-
mics, Seminaries and Colleges, and
Teachers, admitted without examination
and, If found worthy of them, viii be CREDITED
with the grades they have made
Total expenses for term Of 90 weeks, including
board, lights. fuel and tuition. from $40 to $50.
Send for Catalogue containing full particalau.
Address,
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
49,,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-06
NEW CASH
Grocery House

/ have opened, in the Beck building.
east side public square, a choice fresh
stoch of everything in the line of